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North American Lighthouse Recipe Book | abstractNASHVILLE
North American Lighthouse Recipe Book
This recipe book will take you on a culinary journey across America to visit some of our country's most beautiful and historic lighthouses. Lighthouse keepers and their families perfected the art of local dining by learning to gather food from their immediate and isolating areas.
The American Lighthouse Cookbook celebrates the local cuisines that have long been the staple of lighthouse keepers. Arranged geographically in regions of America, the lighthouses were chosen for their interesting backgrounds and stories. Following the story of each lighthouse is a menu for a modern-day lighthouse meal. Each of the approximately 300 recipes captures the essence of the local foods available to lighthouse keepers from the 1700s through today.
This recipe book is separated into sections by region, and then by recipes relating to each lighthouse. We begin each region (section) with a description of it’s history relating to the lighthouses before we get into learning about a specific one. Then the book moves right into it classic homestyle recipes.
This is a modern and clean approach on a recipe book full of history. You can appreciate the past while also feeling comfortable displaying it in your home.
The purpose of this project was to redesign a previous abstractNASHVILLE article for the NashvilleARTS magazine. I chose an article that features Bill Hobbs, an architecture photographer. Along with the article redesign, there is an invitation to the artists opening reception at Zeitgeist Gallery.
2020
Addy Award Winner - Silver
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Image 1 - 2 are the original design. It’s more cluttered and tight than I would prefer. My vision for the redesign was to bring back some white space, and establish a strong grid. This allows for the art to stand by itself, and allow the viewer to spend more time with each stunning photograph.
